{
  "id": "0902.3544",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-02-20T10:58:34.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-02-20T10:58:34.000Z",
  "title": "Counting statistics of cotunneling electrons",
  "authors": [
    "Clive Emary"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages, 6 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 80, 235306 (2009)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.80.235306",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe a method for calculating the counting statistics of electronic transport through nanoscale devices with both sequential and cotunneling contributions. The method is based upon a perturbative expansion of the von Neumann equation in Liouvillian space, with current cumulants calculated from the resulting nonMarkovian master equation without further approximation. As application, we consider transport through a single quantum dot and discuss the effects of cotunneling on noise and skewness, as well as the properties of various approximation schemes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-02-20T10:58:34.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.23.Hk",
      "73.63.Kv",
      "42.50.Lc"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "counting statistics",
      "cotunneling electrons",
      "von neumann equation",
      "resulting nonmarkovian master equation",
      "single quantum dot"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2009,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 80,
      "number": 23,
      "pages": 235306
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2009PhRvB..80w5306E"
    }
  }
}